What the UK car market is thriving ?
We make cars for folk who export the profits
We dont have any of any real size compared to France Italy or Germany

Japan can find their own way into european markets im sure

and it wont involve us hence jobs will be lost

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maybe the french will help them out with some car factories

Perhaps

So if you are opposed to continued membership of the EU you are part of a "mob" ?

How does that work ?

I think the point was that the media is anti EU and you rarely hear anything positive as the media skews the amount of air time and distorts this debate. For example the UKIP coverage v polling and MP levels

I know Aston are not British anymore but also up infill my most recent uk manufacturing venture worked in one of those EU funded advanced manufacturing thingimajigs

There's very little EU money available anymore so these so called catapult centres have to team up with SMEs to get their hands on a cent or rely on big co funding it's ducked from the start unless you go it alone

given the trading conditions with the eurozone are unlikely to be significantly different if we leave.

It is strange that you think that you can leave and the EU will let you carry on trading but not do any of the harmonising or paying- do you not think they may be pissed off with you and bigger?

This is not what happens for the European economic Area who

They adopt almost all EU legislation related to the single market, except laws on agriculture and fisheries.

Basically the UK wants the free trade parts and non of the responsibilities but i cannot see a set of circumstances where the EU will agree to this
Sure they will let you trade but who knows what the price will be or what will happen in the horse trading but little change would not be what I would expect and i doubt international investors will feel like chancing their arm

Switzerland, Norway, yes they aren't in the EU, but they're not exempt from all the regulations.

The rules relating to the single market, yes. Not all the other rules - most of the stupid stuff isn't actually anything to do with the single market (I challenge the pro EU mob to give me an example of something stupid which Norway and Switzerland have to abide by ). Nor do they have to contribute the huge sums we do.

Nor do they get get a real say in the rules [ beyond consultation] so they would be even less representative of the people here as we would have no MEPs, or voice within the EU
I dont think that is what the yes camp are campaigning for is it - same level of interference in our markets and we have less say

I vote out. It's not as if UK will become a beggar overnight but if it does then we will all be in the same boat so I do not see any problem with that.

With 58 million population in such a tiny island it is too good an opportunity not to invest here.

As for Japland etc they can go if they want but I bet the Korean, Chinese and Indian etc will replace them big time in order to use the British knowledge to compete with others. JapLand is only strong in the car industry and I give them that ... I like Japanese cars but I only prefer Toyota.